duplicitous similitude

Astral Star

8-28-06

Looking to jet off
To shoot into an exemplary sky
Dripping with guilty
Diamonds
Of the lions eye

Cut my silver screen
Into a bow of mercury
Slithering screaming
Down the litigious
Shaft of your mind

Pulp pages, fractitious delights
Mar and scam and bottleneck
A scar of their misanthropic
Overlords
Wielding a diploma of pain
Thresholds gained
Smelt and apples and devoured blights
A minor edge of the populace’s
Latest quagmire

Verisimilitude echoes through the
Latent hallow mind
Given to adjunct devastation
Nothing grates the rind
Reels the line
Sees the why

FinsburyParkCarrots

Ah, wonderful stuff. I love this throwing together of words, to seem to change their meaning by their new context. But then, I love your writing anyway. There's play, pun, free association, surprise images, unusual, extended metaphors ... It reminds me of some of Beckett's absurdist writings. People often wonder, ah, is there a political element in some lines? Similar to possible readings of your reference to misanthropic overlords.

However, Beckett once called Endgame, a work that often gets read as a post-nuclear, apocalyptic vision of a world as a void where the arbitrary relationship between language and meaning is finally broken, as nothing more than "pure play". There is "pure play in your work", and for its moments of Bosch-like imagery (mercury bows into the mind, hellish quagmires and ubiquitous devastation), there is play, and ironic joy at the sport of creating this dark mindscape.

DopeBeastie

ooh, you said that so well, fins...

astral.... what he said :D:D:D



meanwhile, back at the ranch... rachel searches furiously for her thesaurus




what do it mean?